The Coverity Scan service, which the study was based on, was started with the US Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The project was designed to give hard answers to questions about open source ...

Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

In his seminal work The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond put forward the claim that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” He dubbed this Linus’ Law, in honor of Linux creator Linus ...

Coverity's data supports claims of a 16 percent improvement or a 21 percent decline in open source code quality, depending on how the results are calculated Data from the Coverity Scan Open Source ...

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The Coverity Scan service provides the company's patented development testing technology at no cost to the open source community, to help them build quality and security into their software ...

Software quality is a topic close to most developers’ hearts, whether they work with open-source or proprietary code. Assessing quality, however, isn’t a simple matter. As a result, several efforts ...